Prior to the super-committee’s creation when all were still in the midst of heated arguments whether or not to raise the debt ceiling, I, like many others, have arguedthat the right shouldn’t compromise, for the end result would be that the right will give in without receiving anything in return from the left.How true that has proven to be.The Democrats remain steadfast in their desire | Read More »

Cowards have no business making hard choices. They are psychologically, physiologically and spiritually deficient, and cannot (are incapable) of making the right choice. They are not built for it — because they are cowards. Furthermore, they are so afraid, they will not allow those with courage to make the right choice for them. Cowardliness is rampant in the West and epidemic in the Western financial | Read More »

After a week to digest the Super Committee Turkey, Congress is back. The Senate will debate the Defense Authorization bill this week and tax issues. The House will consider a bill to stop the National Labor Relations board from rubber stamping a pro-union proposed rule. A Senate committee will have a hearing on a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (BBA). The ideas discussed | Read More »

After a week to digest the Super Committee Turkey, Congress is back. The Senate will debate the Defense Authorization bill this week and tax issues. The House will consider a bill to stop the National Labor Relations board from rubber stamping a pro-union proposed rule. A Senate committee will have a hearing on a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (BBA). The ideas discussed | Read More »

I don’t pretend to be an economist. I don’t even think I could begin to teach a remedial class. I am however attempting to take my layman’s knowledge and apply it to current policies in effect. When the Budget Control Act of 2011 was signed into law by President Barack Obama, most Conservatives viewed this as a D.O.A. answer to the Debt Ceiling Crisis. Why? | Read More »

“The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.” Don Shula So the Republican and Democratic “Super Stars,” just told us what we knew from the gecko. No deal, but the co-chairs left us a few bits of political rhetoric that was supposed to ease our minds and make us proud of those serving in Congress.” They said, “Despite our inability to bridge the | Read More »

Yesterday, we observed the unique spectacle of a socialist president threatening to veto any bill that reinstates higher levels of spending. Did Obama just experience an epiphany? No. We are merely talking about cuts in defense spending. Those are the good kind of cuts. Throughout the entire supercommittee imbroglio, whenever Democrats or members of the media referred to spending cuts – to the extent that | Read More »

Yesterday, we observed the unique spectacle of a socialist president threatening to veto any bill that reinstates higher levels of spending. Did Obama just experience an epiphany? No. We are merely talking about cuts in defense spending. Those are the good kind of cuts. Throughout the entire supercommittee imbroglio, whenever Democrats or members of the media referred to spending cuts – to the extent that | Read More »

With all due respect, the Stupor Committee has failed to come up with any compromise and you, Congress, have failed to do your job. The Constitution requires of you to complete appropriations each year by the October 1 deadline YOU (and your weak-kneed predecessors) imposed, after extending it from July 1! I find it a political farce that 535 Senators and Representatives of The People | Read More »

The Super Committee has failed to find a way to trim $1.2 trillion from the deficit. The fact is, though, the Super Committee was a failure from the moment it was conceived. Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, could not control itself. So it punted its failures to a Super Committee and even the threat of massive defense cuts could not prompt Congress to kick its | Read More »

The Super Committee has failed to find a way to trim $1.2 trillion from the deficit. The fact is, though, the Super Committee was a failure from the moment it was conceived. Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, could not control itself. So it punted its failures to a Super Committee and even the threat of massive defense cuts could not prompt Congress to kick its | Read More »

I just recovered from my weekend hangover celebrating our reward for raising the debt ceiling in August. All good things are worth waiting for, and after three and a half months, we got our vote on a balanced budget amendment! And you know what? It was summarily defeated, even before it came to the Senate. Oh, and 25 of the most vulnerable Democrats now have | Read More »

I just recovered from my weekend hangover celebrating our reward for raising the debt ceiling in August. All good things are worth waiting for, and after three and a half months, we got our vote on a balanced budget amendment! And you know what? It was summarily defeated, even before it came to the Senate. Oh, and 25 of the most vulnerable Democrats now have | Read More »

It is one of the quintessential pillars of the Republican Party — no new taxes. George H. W. Bush got thrown out of office for violating that pledge. But Pat Toomey, Senator of Pennsylvania, is proposing new taxes. He’s proposing $300 billion in new taxes, largely through restructuring and simplifying the tax code. But they are new taxes.So we have the GOP willing to surrender | Read More »

It is one of the quintessential pillars of the Republican Party — no new taxes. George H. W. Bush got thrown out of office for violating that pledge. But Pat Toomey, Senator of Pennsylvania, is proposing new taxes. He’s proposing $300 billion in new taxes, largely through restructuring and simplifying the tax code. But they are new taxes.So we have the GOP willing to surrender | Read More »